LETTER OF MAJOR GENERAL EDMUND P. GAINES, TO THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, IN REPLY TO THEIR RESOLUTIONS OF COMPLIMENT ON HIS ASSUMING THE COMMAND OF THE EASTERN DIVISION.
[New York]: W.C. Bryant & Co., Printers to the Board of Aldermen, [1846]. 24pp, stitched. Light to moderate foxing, Good+. Gaines had won his fame in the Army during the War of 1812, the Black Hawk War, and the Second Seminole War. "He made the arrest of Aaron Burr and..... More